Despite your best efforts, you could not invent a better police force for literature than criticism and the author's own conscienc...e.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To those people in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best effort...s to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required, not because the Communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Your children don't have equal talents now and they won't have equal opportunities later in life. You may be able to divide resour...ces equally in childhood, but your best efforts won't succeed in shielding them from personal or physical crises. . . . Your heart will be broken a thousand times if you really expect to equalize your children's happiness by striving to love them equally.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Oh, the holiness of always being the injured party. The historically oppressed can find not only sanctity but safety in the state ...of victimization. When access to a better life has been denied often enough, and successfully enough, one can use the rejection as an excuse to cease all efforts. After all, one reckons, "they" don't want me, "they" accept their own mediocrity and refuse my best, "they" don't deserve me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience... of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have sought his aid--but if after endeavoring to do my best in the light which he affords me, I find my efforts fail, I must bel...ieve that for some purpose unknown to me, He wills it otherwise.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A daughter needs a loving, available, predictable father or father figure who can be counted on, whether divorced or at home. She ...needs his best paternal intentions, even if his efforts occasionally fall short. She needs his maturity and limit setting and sexual oppositeness, so that she can function with confidence in the wider world of adult love and work.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What I am anxious to do is to get the best bill possible with the least amount of friction.... I wish to avoid [splitting our part...y]. I shall do all in my power to retain the corporation tax as it is now and also force a reduction of the [tariff] schedules. It is only when all other efforts fail that I'll resort to headlines and force the people into this fight.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The best books are not read even by those who are called good readers. What does our Concord culture amount to? There is in this t...own, with a very few exceptions, no taste for the best or for very good books even in English literature, whose words all can read and spell. Even the college-bred and so-called liberally educated men here and elsewhere have really little or no acquaintance with the English classics; and as for the recorded wisdom of mankind, the ancient classics and Bibles, which are accessible to all who will know of them, there are the feeblest efforts anywhere made to become acquainted with them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are loyal hearts, there are spirits brave, There are souls that are pure and true;... Then give to the world the best you have, And the best will come back to you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »